Area Law Enforcement
Around fifty automobiles have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Automobiles, walls and mailboxes were marked, occasionally with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Law enforcement report they were contacted during the night on Wednesday night, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy district of Hanau had been covered with a reddish substance.
The substance had been applied in the pattern of a swastika, they added.
Law enforcement then found many other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the public display of Nazi-era symbols.
Officials report initial examinations suggest the fluid was likely human bodily fluid.
"There is still no indication as to its source; authorities are presently not aware of any harm in association with the occurrence," they commented.
City officials said they were working "to solve the mystery" and have requested to the community for details.
A senior political figure said the incident rendered him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This act strikes at the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist violent incident five years ago," he posted on social media, recalling the killing of nine individuals by a assailant targeting people of foreign heritage in 2020.
